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Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it.

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John Green
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: August 24
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...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.
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Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.
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I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually.
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Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me out of my sentimentality. For me at least, fiction is the only way I can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.
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We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and what we are now.
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I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance.
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I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you.
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I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the drama of my life he was - you know, the central figure in the drama of his own life.
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Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.
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I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.
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The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name there were four Aron Franks. FOUR. Four Aron Franks without museums, without historical markers, without anyone to mourn them. I silently resolved to remember and pray for the four Aron Franks as long as I was around.
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